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Definition of crop verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

     

    crop

     verb
    verb
    NAmE//krɑp//
     
    Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they crop
     
     he / she / it crops
     
     past simple cropped
     
     -ing form cropping
     
     
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    hair
  1. 1[transitive] crop something (+ adj.) to cut someone's hair very short closely cropped hair
    2. photograph
  2. 2[transitive] crop something (technology) to cut off part of a photograph or picture
    3. of animals
  3. 3[transitive] crop something to bite off and eat the tops of plants, especially grass The horses were quietly cropping the grass.
    4. plants
  4. 4[intransitive] (of plants) to produce a crop The potatoes cropped well this year.
  5. 5[transitive] crop something to use land to grow crops The river valley is intensively cropped.
    6. Phrasal Verbscrop up
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